ELIXIR Communities ELIXIR Communities bring together experts from across ELIXIR Nodes and partner organisations to develop standards, services and training within specific life science domains. They are ELIXIR’s means to capture the needs of a particular research community and translate them into formal requirements that drive the work of the ELIXIR Platforms. This close collaboration ensures that the services developed by the ELIXIR Platforms serve the needs of their research communities. ELIXIR recognises three different types of communities: those focused on a specific research field (e.g. Rare Diseases), those dealing with specific technology (e.g. Proteomics) and those providing specialist user support (e.g. Galaxy). In 2019, there were eleven ELIXIR Communities, including three Communities grouped under the Human Data Communities umbrella (p. 34).
designing federated data networks linked by common APIs; the design, evaluation and containerization of workflows, making use of openly available tools, that the research community can use to execute routine, large volume tasks; and ensuring that data held by and shared by ELIXIR Node partners conform as much as possible to the FAIR Principles.
The ELIXIR Communities have diverse interests ranging from scientific research domains to specific technical experimental or computational platforms. They also range in emphasis from pure technical development to community building. They nevertheless share some common goals: participating in and driving the development of data and metadata standards, often in collaboration with global partners; driving the uptake of standards, for example by
The ELIXIR Communities also play a critical role in facilitating collaboration with other biomedical research infrastructures, as in many cases members of ELIXIR Communities from ELIXIR Nodes have close links with the national Nodes of other research infrastructures. On the other hand, members of ELIXIR Communities have the opportunity to engage in and drive global standardisation efforts via ELIXIR.
Galaxy
Plant Science COMMUNITIES
Intrinsically Disordered Proteins
Metabolomics
Microbial Biotechnology
3DBioInfo
Marine Metagenomics
Proteomics
Human Data
Rare Diseases Human Copy Number Variations
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